Bottle-cap remover.



.1. RJSCHULTZ. I BOTTLE CAP HEMOVER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 8. [91 6.

Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

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JOSEPH RISCHUL'IZ, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BOTTLE-CAP BEMOVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

Application filed Kay 8, 1916. Serial No. 96,201.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOSEPH R. SCHULTZ, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, a resident of the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-"Cap Removers, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeing bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to a bottle cap remover and has for its object theproduction of a simple, eificient, and inexpensive bottle opener whichmay be readily applied to a counter, a wall,,or other suitable support.The preferred form of the invention comprises a circular cap-receivingmember provided with means for holding bottle caps and aflexibleretaining device adapted to be bent to secure the cap receivingmember to its support.

Figure I is a front elevation of my bottle cap remover.

Fig. II is a rear elevation of the parts shown in Fig. I.

Fig. III is a section taken approximately through the middle of thecap-receiving member.

Fig. IV is a vertical section showing a bottle applied to the bottle capremover.

designates a portion of a wall, counter, or other suitable supportprovided with a circular opening for the reception of my bottle capremover. B designates a circular bottle cap receiver mounted in thecircular opening in the support A and provided at its outer edge with acircular flange 1 adapted to engage the outer face of the support A. 2designates flexible retaining tongues extending from the inner edge ofthe capreceivin member B and adapted to be bent outwar y, as shown inFigs. II and IV to engage the inner face of the support A. It is to be.understood that these flexible tongues 2 are adapted to pass through thecircular opening before they are bent to the positions shown in thedrawings, and that they may be readily bent to cooperate with the flange1 in securing the cap receiver to the support A. V

3 designates an abutment formed interiorly of the cap-receiving memberand adapted to engage the face of the bottle cap, asshown in Fig. IV. Anabutment lug 4 extending inwardly from the flange 1 is adapted to engagethe crimped edge of the bottle cap. Obviously, the cap may be romoved bymoving the bottle from the position shown in full lines (FigfIV) to theposition shown by dotted lines.

5 designates sharp lugs extending from the periphery ofthe circularcap-receiving member and adapted to beembedded in the support A toprevent the cap-receiving member from turning in the circular opening.

The support A may be very easily bored to form the circular opening, andthe inexpensive bottle cap receiver may be firmly secured to the supportby merely bending the flexible tongues 2.

Y I claim 1. A bottle cap remover comprising a circular cap-receivingmember, adapted to be mounted in a circular opening in a suitablesupport, a retainingflange at one edge of said circular cap-receivingmember adapted to engageone side of said support, flexible retainingelements extending from the opposite edge of said circular cap-receivingmember, an abutment extending inwardly from a point near said retainingflange adapted to be engaged by the edge of the bottle cap, an interiorabutment at a point near said flexible retaining elements adapted to beengaged by the outer face of the bottle cap, said flexible retainingelements being so formed that they may be readily inserted through saidcircular opening and thereafter bent to secure said circularcap-receiving member in said opening, said flange, abut ments andflexible retaining elements being formed integral with each other.

2. A bottle cap remover comprising a circular cap-receiving member,adapted to be mounted in a circular opening in a suitable support, arigid circular retaining flange at the outer edge of said circularcap-receiving member adapted to engage one side of said support,flexible retaining tongues extending from the inner edge of saidcircular capreceiving member, an abutment extending inwardly from saidcircular retaining flange adapted to be engaged by the edge of thebottle cap, an interior abutment member in the form of a reinforcing webformed intereceiving member in said openmg, and sharp gral with saidcircular-cap-receiving memribs 5 extending from the periphery of saidber at a point near said flexible retaining circular cap-receivingmember to cooperate 10 tongues, said flexible retaining tongues bewithsaid flange and tongues in securing said 5 ing so formed that they maybe readily incircular cap-receiving member in said cirserted throughsaid circular opening and cular opening.

thereafter bent to secure said circular cap- JOSEPH R. SCHULTZ.

